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Book I
The Descent to the Piraeus
Cephalus on Old Age
Wealth, and Justice as Telling the Truth and Paying Debts
Simonides: Justice as a Craft, and What It Is Good For
The Guardian Who Is Also a Thief
Thrasymachus Breaks In
Justice Is the Advantage of the Stronger
The Craftsman in the Precise Sense
Thrasymachus' Speech: The Shepherd and the Flock
Whom Rule Serves, and Why the Decent Rule Reluctantly
Is Injustice Virtue and Wisdom?
Injustice Breeds Faction
The Work of the Soul, and an Inconclusive End
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Book II
Glaucon Renews the Argument: Three Kinds of Good
The Origin of Justice as a Compact, and the Ring of Gyges
Two Portraits: The Perfectly Unjust and the Perfectly Just Man
Adeimantus: What Fathers and Poets Praise
The City as the Soul Writ Large
The First City and Its Needs
The Feverish City, and the Need for Guardians
The Guardian's Nature: Spirited and Philosophic
Education Begins: The Tales We Tell
The First Pattern: God Is Good, and Cause Only of Good
The Second Pattern: God Does Not Change or Deceive
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Book III
Tales of Hades, and Grief
Truthfulness, Moderation, and What May Be Said of Men
Diction: Narrative, Imitation, and the Mixed Kind
Whether the Guardians May Imitate
Modes and Rhythms
Why Musical Training Matters: Grace, and the Right Love
Gymnastic and the Body
Medicine, Judges, and Lingering Illness
Music and Gymnastic Together Temper the Soul
Selecting the Rulers, and the Noble Lie
The Guardians' Way of Life: Nothing of Their Own
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Book IV
Are the Guardians Happy? The Happiness of the Whole
Wealth, Poverty, and the Right Size of a City
What the Rulers Must Guard: Education as the One Great Thing
The City Is Founded: Where Is Justice?
Courage as the Preservation of a Right Belief
Moderation as Agreement About Who Should Rule
Justice: Doing One's Own
Turning to the Soul: Is It One or Many?
The Principle of Opposites: Reason and Appetite
The Spirited Part
The Virtues in the Soul, and Justice as Health
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Book V
Polemarchus Interrupts: The Community of Women and Children
First Wave: The Nature and Education of Women
Second Wave: Wives and Children in Common
The Regulation of Births
All One Family: Kinship, Unity, and the Guardians' Happiness
The Guardians at War, and How Greeks Should Treat Greeks
Is Such a City Possible? The Third Wave
Who Counts as a Philosopher
Knowledge, Opinion, and the Dreamers
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Book VI
The Philosopher's Nature, and Why Such Men Should Rule
Adeimantus Objects: The Ship of State
How Philosophic Natures Are Corrupted
The Great Beast: The Crowd as Educator
Unworthy Suitors of Philosophy
What City Would Suit the Philosopher
Persuading the Many: The Painter of Constitutions
The Greatest Study, and What the Good Is Not
The Sun, Offspring of the Good
The Divided Line
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Book VII
The Cave
Reading the Cave: The Turning of the Soul
Compelling the Philosophers to Go Back Down
What Draws the Soul Upward: Number
The Mathematical Studies: Arithmetic, Geometry, and Solids
Astronomy and Harmonics
Dialectic
Choosing and Testing the Students
The Danger of Dialectic Taken Too Early
How Such a City Could Actually Come to Be
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Book VIII
Recalling the Argument: Four Defective Constitutions
Timocracy: How It Arises
The Timocratic Man
Oligarchy: How It Arises
The Oligarchic Man
Democracy: How It Arises
The Democratic Man
Freedom Turning Into Slavery
The Protector Becomes a Tyrant
The Tyrant Secures His Power
The People's Slavery
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Book IX
Lawless Desires, and Dreams
How the Tyrannical Man Comes to Be
A Life Ruled by Eros
The Tyrannical Man in Private and in Public
First Proof: The City and the Soul Compared
The Tyrant's Slavery and Misery
Second Proof: Three Parts, Three Pleasures, Three Lives
Third Proof: Pleasure, Pain, and the State Between
Filling the Soul: Which Pleasures Are True
By How Much the King Lives More Pleasantly
Man, Lion, and Beast: The City Laid Up in Heaven
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Book X
Imitation: Three Removes From the Truth
The Imitator Knows Nothing
Imitation Appeals to the Inferior Part
The Charm of Poetry, and the Old Quarrel
The Rewards of Justice, and the Immortal Soul
The Soul's True Nature, Like Glaucus
Justice Rewarded, by Gods and by Men
The Myth of Er: The Journey, and the Spindle of Necessity
The Choice of Lives, and the River of Forgetfulness